Richard Gipps 1659-1708
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Sir Richard GIPPS 1659-1708
Biographical Note
Of Great Whelnetham, Suffolk. Matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1675. Admitted to Gray’s Inn and made master of the revels 1682. He authored the Antiquitates Suffolcienses, published in 1894.
Books
Library sold by retail sale in London, 13.12.1728: one of the first libraries to be sold by priced catalogue rather than auction.
Sources
- Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.
- Blatchly, J. M. "Gipps, Sir Richard (bap. 1659, d. 1708), topographer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Leach, M. & M. Lockett, Sir Richard Gipps' library at Great Whelnetham, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, 43 (2015), 390-411.